Here’s a small selection of the many colorful epithets she flung at critics over the years: ‘auctioneering agents of Satan’; ‘bands of assumptionists’; ‘bastard donkey-headed mites’; ‘clay crabs of corruption’; ‘denouncing Arabs’; ‘evil-minded snapshots of spleen’; ‘genius scathers’; ‘hogwashing hooligans’; ‘rodents of state’; ‘street Arabs’; and ‘vicious vandals.’ Ros might not have been up to much as a novelist, but she would have been excellent at coming up with names for punk bands.Amanda McKittrick Ros, the worst novelist in history?